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Caught in a Loop with Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives: How to Move Forward?

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2022
Completion of an advance care planning (ACP) process and/or an advance directive should result in patients receiving the care they desire at the end of life. However, three decades of research have shown that is just not the case.
V. Periyakoil, C. Gunten, Robert Arnold, S. Hickman, S. Morrison, R. Sudore   +5 more
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Efficacy of Normalisation of Advance Care Planning (NACP) for people with chronic diseases in hospital and community settings: a quasi-experimental study

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Advance Care Planning (ACP) has emerged to improve end-of-life processes and experiences. However, the available evidence presents the gloomy picture of increasing number of older people living with chronic diseases and the mismatch between ...
Sarah Jeong, Peter Cleasby, Se Ok Ohr, Tomiko Barrett, Ryan Davey, Christopher Oldmeadow   +5 more
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Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background For the benefits of advance care planning to be realised during a hospital admission, the treating team must have accurate knowledge of the law pertaining to implementation of advance care directives (ACDs) and substitute decision making. Aims
Jamie Bryant, Amy Waller, Alison Bowman, Robert Pickles, Carolyn Hullick, Emma Price, Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Anne Knight, Mary-Ann Ryall, Rob Sanson-Fisher   +10 more
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Why have Advance Directives failed in Spain?

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background In Spain, there has been great effort by lawmakers to put Advance Directives (ADs) into practice since 2002. At the same time, the field of bioethics has been on the rise, a discipline that has spurred debate on the right of patients to ...
Benjamín Herreros, María Benito, Pablo Gella, Emanuele Valenti, Beatriz Sánchez, Tayra Velasco   +5 more
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'A perfect storm' or missed care? Focus group interviews with dementia care professionals on Advance Care Planning

BMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background Dementia is one of the leading causes of dependency and disability among older people and currently the seventh leading cause of death among all diseases.
Annika Tetrault, Maj-Helen Nyback, Lisbeth Fagerström, Heli Vaartio-Rajalin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of a Nurse-Led Multidisciplinary Intervention vs Usual Care on Advance Care Planning for Vulnerable Older Adults in an Accountable Care Organization: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2021
Importance Advance care planning (ACP), especially among vulnerable older adults, remains underused in primary care. Additionally, many ACP initiatives fail to integrate directly into the electronic health record (EHR), resulting in infrequent and ...
J. Gabbard, N. Pajewski, Kathryn E Callahan, Ajay Dharod, K. Foley, Keren G. Ferris, A. Moses, J. Willard, J. Williamson   +8 more
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Social workers’ involvement in advance care planning: a systematic narrative review

BMC Palliative Care, 2017
Background Advance care planning is a process of discussion that enables competent adults to express their wishes about end-of-life care through periods of decisional incapacity.
Chong-Wen Wang, Cecilia L. W. Chan, Amy Y. M. Chow   +2 more
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Advance Care Planning in Spain

Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen, 2023
In the last decade in Spain, an important push has been given to the development of health policies that define the framework of action in the care of people with advanced chronic diseases. Respect for the autonomy of the patient, shared decision-making processes and advance care planning (ACP) are recognized into health plans as a key aspect in ...
Las Marías, Cristina, Carrero, Virginia, Fernández bueno, Julia, García-Llana, Helena, Granero-Moya, Nani, Júdez, Javier, Pérez de Lucas, Nuria, Saralegui, Iñaki, Velasco, Tayra   +8 more
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Asian patients’ perspectives on advance care planning: A mixed-method systematic review and conceptual framework

Palliative Medicine, 2021
Background: Asian healthcare professionals hold that patients’ families play an essential role in advance care planning. Aim: To systematically synthesize evidence regarding Asian patients’ perspectives on advance care planning and their underlying ...
D. Martina, Olaf P. Geerse, Cheng-Pei Lin, M. Kristanti, W. Bramer, M. Mori, I. Korfage, A. van der Heide, J. Rietjens, C. V. D. van der Rijt   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Issues in the development of advance directives in mental health care [PDF]

, 2003
<i>Background</i>: Interest in advance directives in mental health care is growing internationally. There is no clear universal agreement as to what such an advance directive is or how it should function.
Patrick, H., Garner, H., Stuart, S., Atkinson, J.M.   +3 more
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